Bewholme in the Domesday Book (1086)

The 1086 Domesday survey records the settlement of Bewholme, entered under the hundred of Holderness [North Hundred] in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Holderness [North Hundred]

• Arnestorp
• Arram
• Barmston
• Beeford
• Brandesburton
• Catfoss [Hall]
• Catwick
• Chenecol
• Chenucol
• Chenuthesholm
• Cleeton
• Dringhoe
• Dunnington
• Goxhill

The Meaning of the Name

The name Bewholme is of Scandinavian origin. Its final element derives from the Old Norse word holmr, an island or patch of raised ground in marsh. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a island’.

Names of this type are a fingerprint of Scandinavian settlement: they cluster across the old Danelaw, where Norse-speaking settlers renamed or founded villages from the late 9th century onward.

Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Bewholme.

Listed Buildings Near Bewholme

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Bewholme. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• Bewholme Hall - 0.15 km
• The Old Vicarage - 0.45 km
• Primitive Methodist Chapel - 0.51 km
• The Manor House - 0.67 km

Bewholme Today

Today Bewholme lies within the administrative area of East Riding of Yorkshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 239 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Bewholme on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Arram - 1.0 km S
• Nunkeeling - 2.0 km W
• Dunnington - 2.2 km NW
• High Skirlington - 2.8 km NE
• Seaton - 4.0 km S
• Wassand Hall - 4.1 km S